Another tweet appeared to show parts of the plane's fuselage lying in the middle of a street.A Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) plane with 107 people on board has crashed in a residential area of Karachi.(Additional reporting Charlotte Greenfield in Islamabad and Gibran Peshimam in Karachi; Writing and reporting by Asif Shahzad in Islamabad and Andrew Heavens; Editing by Andrew Cawthorne and Kevin Liffey).

An official report blamed the accident on a confused captain and a hostile cockpit atmosphere. It was unknown how many people on the ground were hurt as the Pakistan International Airlines jet, an Airbus A320, plowed into an alley and destroyed at least five houses. Airworthiness documents showed the plane last received a government check on.

Airbus said the plane had logged 47,100 flight hours and 25,860 flights as of Friday.Pakistan International Airlines plane arriving from Lahore comes down in residential area.Immediate inquiry will be instituted.

The airline’s chairman is reported to have said the pilot told air-traffic controllers of a problem with the landing gear.Immediate inquiry will be instituted.Rescue workers spray water on the part of a Pakistan International Airlines aircraft after it crashed at a residential area in Karachi on May 22, 2020. .

Pakistan has the second largest number of Muslims in the world after Indonesia.The Pakistan military said security forces have been deployed to the area and helicopters were being used to survey the damage and help ongoing rescue operations, while offering condolences over the loss of precious lives in the incident.Airworthiness documents showed the plane last received a government check on.

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Karachi Mayor Waseem Akhtar had earlier said there were expected to be no survivors among those on board the jet.In 2016, a PIA plane burst into flames after one of its two turboprop engines failed en route to Islamabad, killing more than 40 people.PIA said the plane had joined the fleet in 2014 and passed its annual airworthiness inspection last November.

The bank said he had suffered fractures but was conscious and responding well.The plane was travelling to Karachi from the city of Lahore, data from Flight Radar 24 shows.Immediate inquiry will be instituted.

The Sindh provincial government press department later distributed a photo depicting a second survivor identified as Mohammad Zubair, recovering in a Karachi hospital.Immediate inquiry will be instituted.You can find our Community Guidelines in full here.

She added that all the injured residents were in stable condition.Witnesses said the plane appeared to attempt to land two or three times before crashing near the airport.A spokesperson for Pakistan's civil aviation authority attributed the discrepancy to confusion in the tense aftermath of the crash.

The civil aviation authority said the pilot called in a mayday saying that he had lost an engine. Airbus said it would provide technical assistance to investigators in France and Pakistan, as well as the airline and engine manufacturers. Local TV stations showed video of a man on a stretcher they identified as Zafar Masood, the head of the Bank of Punjab.

The state health minister state that the crowd caused difficulties for the rescue workers.COAS directed provision of full assistance to civil administration in rescue/ relief effort, said Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR).

Local media reports suggest that the aircraft lost both its engines and crashed into Model Town, a residential area in Karachi.In Pakistan’s most recent deadly crash, a PIA plane in 2016 burst into flames after one of its two turboprop engines failed while flying from the remote north to Islamabad, killing more than 40 people.The plane had attempted one landing but as it went round again lost its engines and issued a mayday call.

PIA said the plane had joined the fleet in 2014 and passed its annual airworthiness inspection last November.The airport in Lahore, where the Pakistan International Airlines flight originated on Friday, initially said there were 107 people on board. "We are proceeding direct, sir -- we have lost engine," a pilot said.

The Airbus A320, operated by Pakistan's national flag carrier, was due to land in Karachi at 2:45pm local time (09:45 GMT) after an hour and a half in the air after departing Lahore earlier in the day.Pakistan International Airlines plane crash in Karachi.